Black history month series vol. 7 (even though I don’t think we need a month:)
Will you Cut your Dick off?
Social Agreement can make you a fool
Social conditioning and social agreement.
I warned my son about this.
I told him:
- “Suppose we lived in the social agreement society where boys cut their dicks off at age 14;
- You don’t see the sense of it and refuse;
- But everyone around you says you're crazy for not cutting your dick off;
- They give all the reasons why you should; and,
- If you don’t have a strong mind, you doubt yourself and cut your dick off.”
“It’s sick!”
This analogy was harsh for my older son to hear at first when he was 14. He actually held his genitals and was like “Mom I get your point”🤣
Now he’s 17 and trying to get his driver’s license.
So today, he drove while I retold the lesson while driving my 13-year-old and his best friend to school this morning.
His best friend said he understood the metaphor.
Then I said “You can’t always listen to what the majority is saying to you. Think for yourself and trust your intuition.”
Then my youngest son asked:
“What if your intuition is wrong?”
“Good question”, I said, “do you want to cut your dick off?”
“Then that’s a learning curve…you live, you learn.”
I’m only human, sometimes I question myself because of all the haters that are socially conditioned.
That’s gaslighting if I’ve ever seen it but I’m glad I’ve seen the light.
These fools will make you think YOU are the fool.
This whole story and reintroduction of my “Will you cut your dick off?” story to my kids, came out of a comment section response to Maxwell Jordan’s story:
I met Maxwell Jordan through our back and forth correspondence in my other story:
After that Maxwell Jordan introduced me to a HILARIOUS story with the same sentiment of my story “An Open Letter to African-Americans Who Think I’m a White Supremacist Advocator”:
He was OBVIOUSLY joking, he’s not a white supremacist and neither am I.
So I was laughing my ass off at Maxwell's white supremacist story 🤣 so I had to introduce him to my story:
Why I believe some black people think we are white supremacists advocators
Sidenote: I have to introduce Sophie Pascal’s quote here as to why I believe some black people think we are white supremacists advocators. This quote is coming from a white woman whose views on race I advocate:
All you see is racism. You seek it out. It’s an American narrative today. Understandably, it is steeped in American history. You want to find it and pin the tail on the donkey. And anyone who does not agree with the depiction of perpetual victim that the author of this piece upholds is on the “wrong side.” Americans cannot see beyond racism today. There can be no discourse. Someone is automatically a racist if they don’t adhere to the narrative. The goal is to create “discomfort.” Creating puppets from white guilt.
My newest story:
Will you Cut your Dick off?
I know this conversation came out of the context of not seeing myself as a victim because of my race. But this concept can be applied to various topics. Try to think of this question without color.
Social agreement can make you a fool and cut your dick off.
